This is an archive of the mabination.com forums which were active from 2010 to 2018. You can not register, post or otherwise interact with the site other than browsing the content for historical purposes. The content is provided as-is, from the moment of the last backup taken of the database in 2019. Image and video embeds are disabled on purpose and represented textually since most of those links are dead.
To view other archive projects go to
https://archives.mabination.com
-
BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-01-03 09:41
BEEBE, Ark. -- Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.
Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
The commission said that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.
Robby King, a wildlife officer for the agency, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.
Rowe said that similar events have occurred elsewhere and that test results "usually were inconclusive." She said she doubted the birds were poisoned.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/02/more-than-1-000-dead-birds-fall-from-sky-in-arkansas/?icid=maing|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk1|34161
well the cat wasn't there owo
and if you don't know what the cat is referencing
http://mabination.com/threads/8517-Something-Unexpected-Just-Unexpectedly-Happened-Again?p=146474&viewfull=1#post146474
-
Taycat wrote on 2011-01-03 09:42
Every news station in memphis went wtf.
Believe me.
-
gentrone wrote on 2011-01-03 12:55
The commission said that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.
lol bs.
-
Roy Mustang wrote on 2011-01-03 13:01
Poor birds...they can't handle the excitement of New Years fireworks :/
What have we as humans done to the environment?
-
Piero wrote on 2011-01-03 13:02
Either Morrighan banhammar'd them or they flew into some toxic area.
-
Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-01-03 13:15
If they died from stress that easily then they probably deserve to die in this whole "survival of the fittest" thing.
-
Zid wrote on 2011-01-03 13:30
Rowe said that similar events have occurred elsewhere and that test results "usually were inconclusive."
Oh, my.
-
Cynic wrote on 2011-01-03 13:50
If it was human-caused stress that did it, I'd expect to see it way more often. Perhaps it was the weather?
..Though that's still a ridiculous amount of birds, I mean really.
-
Osayidan wrote on 2011-01-03 14:10
The cat put a very large window in the sky.
-
Roy Mustang wrote on 2011-01-03 15:19
*gasp*
Ceiling Cat Did it!
-
Iyasenu wrote on 2011-01-03 15:24
Ew, 1000!?
That's a lot of dead things...
Did they already clean them up?
As bad as this is, I'd really rather not have a bunch of dead things lying around.
-
MikeHo wrote on 2011-01-03 18:03
Lol bet the cats and ants are having a feast. :XD:
-
TA wrote on 2011-01-03 20:44
inb4 space aliens!
-
BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-01-03 22:41
Quote from kingofrunes;274471:
*gasp*
Ceiling Cat Did it!
there's a ceiling in the sky? owo
-
Piko wrote on 2011-01-03 22:49
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;274818:
there's a ceiling in the sky? owo
[Image: http://gyazo.com/45798d1707a97360ce8e3877d7d5f2e7.png]